Fargo Updated
The_Goddess:
I guess now would be a good time to introduce myself. Hello, everyone. I've come out of lurking to share with you my work in progress on a little world I call Springville Fargo. I've been sharing my fiancé's account for some time now, but if I'm going to make Springville Fargo available for download, having my own account would be nice. Thoughts and opinions are welcome.
http://twitpic.com/108zx9
Edit/Update: I have updated Fargo to include new career lots from Ambitions. There is now a Junkyard/Consignment Shop, Laundromat, Styling Salon, Hangout/Tattoo Parlor and a Firehouse. I have added a thin land bridge to provide access to the Island. I have fixed a few floating objects and roads that grew grass from certain angles. Because Ambitions gave us the ability to add and remove world objects, I added the Space Shuttle back to Fargo. My Astronaut sim is quite pleased, but if you prefer not to have it, you are welcome to delete it. I added 2 new neighborhoods to make up for the military housing that I removed. I've also added a couple of cute parks. There are now 109 residential lots and 40 community lots.
I'd like to offer special thanks and recognition to all the builders that created the lovely houses in my neighborhood, but I don't know who many of them are. MATY's own Tangie created one of them; see if you can find it. Plasticbox created many of the small houses I put in town. Hatshepsut created many of my suburban houses. In all cases, if there was something written in the details box, I left it there so there might be a signature of the artists on some of the houses. If you know the names of any of the other creators, feel free to list their names and give them credit here. I did not build any of the residential homes but I did alter many of them in tiny ways, either to touch up terrain paint or replace custom content with game objects.
If you are already playing the old Fargo, don't forget to package up your families; you will have to uninstall the old in order to install the new.
Here is where you can get your hands on it…
http://www.mediafire.com/fargo
Though I tried not to use CC in the world, I have been informed that 44 items are in fact attached to the world. These items include: a few windows and doors, a baby pram, gardening decorations, graveyard decorations and some patterns. I'm sorry for any inconvenience this might cause.
Moryrie:
It looks nice overall... but some more info would be helpful... like what world size, how many lots, how many things are built on it, other views, lot size ranges ect.
I'm also not quite sure what to say about the mountains. Something seems a bit off about them.. but then again, CAW is kindof weird to use, so that might not be intentional.
The_Goddess:
I used the medium island with a max height of 200. There are about 87 residential lots and 38 community lots. The sizes of the residential lots in the main part of town are 20X20 - 20X30. The average size for the lots in the suburbs are 30X30 - 30X40. The farms range from 40X40 - 64X64. The homes in the mountains are random sizes. The lots on the tiny island off the shore (which you will need to zenaport to get to) are about 15X15. All of the rabbit holes have been used, and there are three markets in the country that use WA cash registers: a grocery store, bookstore, and relics shop. (Warning! The game chooses a random unemployed Sim to man these markets, so it is a good idea to load your neighborhood with a few shopkeeper candidates—then have one Sim visit each of the markets to activate the selection prior to loading your beloved Sims.)
More photos now on TwitPic
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spaceface:
The farming area is supercute! I would love to play this once you have completed it.
I agree that your mountains are a bit weird; unless this is set on an alien planet with different gravity you wouldn't get such pointy peaks. The space shuttle looks totally out of place on such a dinky little island, if you want to have the rabbit hole I suggest you bury it and design a much smaller building that will blend in better. The town hall, stadium, office building etc should have some sort of paving around them to look realistic, you could soften this to match the overall feel by putting in formal flowerbeds and/or benches.
The_Goddess:
I haven't had much of a chance to put details in the lots themselves yet, I really just set the rabbit holes down to give me an idea of placement. I wasn't sure if I should upload it blank (all empty lots) or fill it. I don't plan on custom building the residential lots, as I have downloaded so many adorable homes from various sites. So many in fact, that I can't remember where I got most of them. I wouldn't know who to give credit to. My thought was that I would work on giving the rabbit hole lots a finished look, and let whoever downloads the town, fill it with homes they love. I thought I would just post photos of how I fill it with the homes I had acquired. I could upload a completed version as well, but I wouldn't know where to begin with cataloging all of the custom content. Sim worlds become so personal to the person controlling them. The mountains are rather pointy. They look cool up close. Detail gets lost from a distance. For the most part it is completed as of now. I have all of the spawners and the basic shell of the rabbit hole lots all in place. I have one of the markets finished, though it is an adaptation from someone else's farm lot. I was just getting ready to give it a test run to see how she plays
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